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Guidelines for diagnosing, preventing and managing cryptococcal disease among adults, adolescents and children living with HIV (2022)

Updated recommendations on treatment of adolescents and children with chronic HCV infection (2022)

Updated recommendations on simplified service delivery and diagnostics for hepatitis C infection (2022)

Clinical management and infection prevention and control for monkeypox (2022)

Affenpocken: Verdachtsabklärung und Maßnahmen, Orientierungshilfe für Ärztinnen und Ärzte (2022)

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Guidelines for diagnosing, preventing and managing cryptococcal disease among adults, adolescents and children living with HIV (2022)

Updated recommendations on treatment of adolescents and children with chronic HCV infection (2022)

Updated recommendations on simplified service delivery and diagnostics for hepatitis C infection (2022)

Monkeypox and pregnancy: what do obstetricians need to know? (2022)

Global clinical data platform for severe acute hepatitis of unknown aetiology in children case report form (CRF) (2022)

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	Polio vaccines: WHO position paper – June 2022 World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO View PDF(6268) Download (1237) Add to my MEDBOX This position paper on polio vaccines replaces the 2016 WHO position paper, and summarizes recent developments in the field. Tags: Poliomyelitits, Vaccination, Source: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/hand
	WHO Guidelines for malaria World Health Organization (WHO) (2022) C_WHO View PDF(1631) Download (2152) Add to my MEDBOX 3 June 2022 The WHO Guidelines for malaria bring together the Organization’s most up-to-date recommendations for malaria in one user-friendly and easy-to-navigate online platform. https://app.magicapp.org/#/guideline/6086 The WHO Guidelines for malaria supersedes 2 previous WHO publications: the Guidelines for the treatment of malaria, third edition and the Guidelines for malaria vector control. Recommendations on malaria will continue to be reviewed and, where appropriate, updated based on the latest available evidence. Any updated recommendations will always display the date of the most recent revision in the MAGICapp platform. With each update, a new PDF version of the consolidated guidelines will also be available for download on the WHO website. The third version of the Guidelines includes a new section on malaria vaccines and replaces the versions published on 16 February 2021 and 13 July 2021 Tags: malaria treatment, Guidelines, vaccine, diagnostic, Vector Control, Source: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/
	Global Technical Strategy for Malaria 2016–2030, 2021 Update Pedro Alonso, Kevin Baird, David Brandling-Bennett et al. World Health Organization (WHO) (2022) C_WHO View PDF(1603) Download (1090) Add to my MEDBOX Tags: strategy, elimination, malaria, Source: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/hand
	World Malaria Report 2021 World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO View PDF(482) Download (612) Add to my MEDBOX TNew data from the World Health Organization reveal that the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted malaria services, leading to a marked increase in cases and deaths. According to WHO’s latest World malaria report, there were an estimated 241 million malaria cases and 627 000 malaria deaths worldwide in 2020. This represents about 14 million more cases in 2020 compared to 2019, and 69 000 more deaths. Approximately two-thirds of these additional deaths (47 000) were linked to disruptions in the provision of malaria prevention, diagnosis and treatment during the pandemic. As in past years, the report provides an up-to-date assessment of the burden of malaria at global, regional and country levels. It tracks investments in malaria programmes and research as well as progress across all intervention areas. This latest report draws on data from 87 countries and territories with ongoing malaria transmission Tags: malaria control, malaria, Malaria, malaria prevention, malaria diagnositc, Vaccination, Source: https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-s
	Meningitis World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO View PDF(1735) Download (882) Add to my MEDBOX 28 Sept. 2021 The focus of this fact sheet is on the four main causes of acute bacterial meningitis: Neisseria meningitidis (meningococcus) Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) Haemophilus influenzae Streptococcus agalactiae (group B streptococcus Tags: Meningitis, factsheet, Bacterial Meningitis, Source: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheet
	Cholera: Revised cholera kits and calculation tool World Health Organization (WHO) (2021) C_WHO View PDF(1886) Download (581) Add to my MEDBOX In 2016 WHO introduced the Cholera Kits. These kits replace the Interagency Diarrhoeal Disease Kit (IDDK) which had been used for many years. The Cholera Kit is designed to be flexible and adaptable for preparedness and outbreak response in different contexts. The overall Cholera Kit is made up of an Investigation Kit, Laboratory materials, 3 Treatment Kits (community, periphery and central) and a Hardware Kit. The Treatment and Hardware Kits are each composed of individual modules. Each of the kits and modules can be ordered independently based on field need. To support orders, a Cholera Kit Calculation Tool was developed. The information note, packing lists and the Kit Calculation Tool are all available from the WHO website at: http://www.who.int/cholera/kit/en Tags: cholera, emergency care, emergency health kits, clinical practice guidelines, Online Courses, Source: https://openwho.org/courses/cholera-kits
	WHO malaria terminology, 2021 update World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO View PDF(1114) Download (501) Add to my MEDBOX This updated glossary for malaria aims to improve communication and mutual understanding within the scientific community, as well as with funding agencies, public health officials responsible for malaria programmes, and policy-makers in malaria-endemic countrie Tags: Malaria, Terminology, glossary, communication, Source: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/hand
	Guidelines - European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS) European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS) European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS) (2020) C2 Open external link (2408) Add to my MEDBOX Version 10.1_5 October 2020 These Guidelines are available in different formats: As a paper booklet, a PDF, a mobile app, and now also as a website. The 2019 version of the Guidelines introduces a new drug-drug interaction panel and now consists of six main sections, including a general overview table of all major issues in PLWH, recommendations on antiretroviral treatment, drug-drug interactions, diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of co-morbidities, co-infections and opportunistic diseases. Available in English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese and Japanes Tags: HIV, hiv drugs, hiv treatment, Guidelines, Europe, ART, ARV, STI, Source: https://www.eacsociety.org/guidelines/ea
	Cholera kits 2020 World Health Organization (WHO) (2020) C_WHO Open external link (699) Add to my MEDBOX For several years, agencies supporting preparedness and response to cholera outbreaks have supplied medicines and medical devices through the Interagency Diarrhoeal Disease Kits (IDDK). In an effort to better align the presentation and content of the kits to field needs, the composition of the cholera kits has been reviewed by WHO and its partners in 2015 and again in 2020. The content of all modules have been slightly revised with no changes except for the cholera laboratory check list. The revised cholera kits 2020 are designed to help prepare for a potential cholera outbreak and to support the first month of the initial response for 100 cases. The overall package consists of six different kits, each divided in several modules Tags: cholera, emergency care, humanitarian aid, medical, medical staff, WHO guidelines, Source: https://www.who.int/emergencies/emergenc
	Blue Book. The Medical Guide for our Projects German Doctors German Doctors (2020) C2 View PDF(1040) Download (1711) Add to my MEDBOX 9th edition; 4th English edition 2020 Based on the 8th edition 2011 by Bettina Ritz and Lisa Sous, Peter Krieg and Wolfgang Schafnitzl as co-authors) Tags: blue book, Treatment, medical guidelines, clincial managmeent, emergencies, Respiratory Infections, Gastrointestinal Infections, skin disease, eye health, oral health, Source: http://www.german-doctors.de/arztinfos.h

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